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Football, my favorite lover…

Rachel

Monday, April 13th, 2009

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 relentlessly drawing me to sweet surrender

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Always within my sight, just shy of reach
With shallow breaths I tremble before your beauty.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Want to keep you close, protect you
I chase, and chase, never fast enough; capriciously you elude me.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 How you test me!
When I cannot bear the distance, ready to cede defeat- you come back
to whisper at my feet; play again.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 I beseech-
Allow my weary heart to go,
in quest of a more constant joy, a steadfast partner

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 In vain. I cannot escape your presence, everywhere, taunting me. Coyly beckoning
until I am prostrate before you on this harlequin stage

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 What pulls me back, ever closer? Hope:
A fervent dream- this time could be different. You will do what I command.
You will obey me.

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 Insatiable, like those before me, I abandoned reason in your wake. Have witnessed grown men felled to their knees, crawling to you, crying- and still you heed no one.
Never to be possessed, but revered. You roll on, fearless.

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 Paramour…
I wish I could turn back the clock, erase the missteps and fouls, but
our dance is fated to differ every time, like familiar lovers on foreign land
rediscovered maneuvers, precious

10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 Our rendezvous left me souvenirs, of
bruised and bleeding, faded scars
cherished tokens to prove you were here

11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 Graciously, you did not forsake me as my body grew and changed. Nor shall I-

12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 When you are tattered and your resilience capitulates to the kicks and burns
When you can no longer soar above the pitch as you once did

13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 I will desire you all the same. Without hesitation.

14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 And I will not be alone.

15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 Ever swift and fierce, your every touch allowed us to bask
in the majesty of the moment. In shadows of truth and quest
shared entreaties brought us together.

16 Leave a comment on verse 16 0 In the madness of our youth we bartered our bodies for your attention; belatedly we learned to embrace our hunger for

17 Leave a comment on verse 17 0 your affection. Boundless.

18 Leave a comment on verse 18 0 You wanted nothing more for your suitors
than to discover ourselves in the constant journey. To relish the beauty of this lovers’ game.

19 Leave a comment on verse 19 0 Thus ignited our souls.

20 Leave a comment on verse 20 0 You taught us how to love.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/football-my-favorite-lover/